Scramble - Videogame by Konami

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Scramble

Name: Scramble
Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Scramble Pinout
Settings: Scramble Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [FireBomb]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard
Cocktail

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Scramble Description

Scramble was produced by Konami in 1981.

Konami released 432 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Scramble was produced include 600, Amidar, Jungler, Super Cobra, Tactician, Space War (Leijac), Space King, Block Game, Percussion Freaks 3rd Mix, and Silent Scope Token Shot.

Player controls a spaceship that must infiltrate the enemy Scramble system in this side-view shooter/bomber classic. Player must destroy the Base at the end of the system.
In the STERN version, the enemy base is much harder to destroy than the Konami version but at least in the STERN version, if you lose a base while destroying the enemy base, you do not lose the life and the game starts you back at the system beginning.

Scramble - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.29 (6 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.23

     Overall 'Like': 3.50
     Fun (Social): 2.33
     Fun (Solo): 3.50
     Collector Desire: 2.83

Technical Impressions Score: 3.36

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.33
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 2.17

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard
Cocktail

Game Introduction

Player controls a ship that must infiltrate the five levels of the Scramble system and destroy the Base in the sixth. The first level has the player over a decidedly hilly terrain. Player must dodge or destroy enemy missiles shot from the ground. The second level is inside a cavern. The quarters are not tight, but the swarms of enemy saucers make maneuvering difficult at best. The player exits the cavern and is assaulted by a storm of fireballs in the third level. The fireballs are fast and indestructible and must be manically dodged. The fourth, or City level flies the player over a large metropolis. Missiles fired at the player from the tops of buildings again become a threat. The fifth level sends the player into obnoxiously tight machine tunnels. Pilot error is the only though formidable enemy. The final level has the player make an attack run on the Base, defended only by its position in a deep valley. After the destruction of the Base, the player begins again. Gameplay is further complicated by the player's ship's consumption of fuel. If the player's ship runs out, it crashes into the ground below. Fuel is replenished by the destruction of the fuel tanks that liberally dot the ground during the levels. Each time the player destroys the Base, the ship's fuel consumption increases, dramatically increasing the challenge.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Stern for US manufacture and distribution. Stern released the game in April 1981.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Scramble Census

There are 11,505 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,119 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 152,577 machines (6,538 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 284 known instances of this machine owned by Scramble collectors who are active members. Of these, 170 of them are original dedicated machines, 8 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 105 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 11 active VAPS members with Scramble machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Scramble circuit board for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 11 active VAPS members currently looking for Scramble.

This game ranks a 71 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 20 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

The game uses two Z80 microprocessors and two AY-3-8910 PSGs for sound. It had no copy protection, so it could be hacked to run on just about any hardware!

Legacy

Scramble
Super Cobra

Manuals

German Manual 11 Pages, 1.7 MB File.
Installation 9 Pages, 1.2 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 114; Color photo;
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 114; Color photo; Price guide:

Video Clips

Stern Scramble Arcade Game Review - Konami Gradius Prequel - 1981	Stern SCRAMBLE Arcade Video Game - TNT Amusements	Scramble shortplay by Ivan Paduano
HD Scramble 1981 Konami Mame Retro Arcade Games	Scramble

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Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #944
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #1419
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #4030
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #5935
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #6429
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Scramble Flyer #4073

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